. Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos. LIFE AT STELLINGEN 253 To this list I should add meat soups, milk and fruit soups, whordeberry wine, meal, cherries, grapes, and other fruits for the apes ; further, nearly 50,000 kilos of rye and oat straw, as also (though it hardly comes into this reckoning) 20,000 kilos turf-litter for the beds, and about 200,000 kilos coke and charcoal. The cost of all this amounts, in round figures, to ^7>500- „ The animal park is far from being yet compl
. Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos. LIFE AT STELLINGEN 253 To this list I should add meat soups, milk and fruit soups, whordeberry wine, meal, cherries, grapes, and other fruits for the apes ; further, nearly 50,000 kilos of rye and oat straw, as also (though it hardly comes into this reckoning) 20,000 kilos turf-litter for the beds, and about 200,000 kilos coke and charcoal. The cost of all this amounts, in round figures, to ^7>500- „ The animal park is far from being yet completed. Only this year a second portion of it was opened, in which the ethnographic exhibitions are to be held and which is to con- tain a new performing theatre. In the coming year a third. Newly-arrived penguins being fed. large portion Is to be opened, including a miniature railway running round a pond. On the banks of the pond there will be scattered artistic life-size representations of various prehistoric animals, so that the visitor may fancy that he has been trans- ported back thousands of centuries In time. The cerato- saurus, fifty feet high, and the stegosaurus will both be there;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913. London, New York [etc. ] : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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